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词汇 wild man of borneo
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wild man of Borneo.    P. T. Barnum coined the name of this sideshow attraction, as he did many others. In the ­ mid-­19th century, Barnum displayed the Wild Man in his Brooklyn-based American Museum of Curios. The name holds on today as a hu- morous description of someone unkempt and disheveled, as in “Is that what you’re going to wear—you look like the Wild Man of Borneo!” See there’s a sucker born every minute.
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